Sisterhoodlum

It was International Women's Day yesterday. At the current rate of progress, if we are to achieve social, economic and politic parity we only have to wait another 117 years. That's not a global statistic, that's just in the UK.  It seems hard to believe doesn't it? And it's a fact I want to ram down the throats of all those young girls who say there is no need to be a feminist because women are equal now. 

Women are supposed to help each other, work together to raise one another up. I think over the last 30 years or so, a great many women have forgotten this (if they ever knew it).  There is so much judgement, so much running--down of one another. Women like Katie Hopkins are the 21st century wicked witches. 

I feel I have a responsibility not just to make my own path, but to make it wide enough and solid enough for others to come with me on the journey, not just behind me but alongside, arm in arm. Taking up the whole pavement like the Sex In The City girls. They were good friends, weren't they? All different, but tight, loyal. 

I've got girlfriends like that. Without them, I'd never have survived. I can count them on the fingers of one hand - but who needs more than four corners anyway?  I am truly blessed.